Secret Honor (The Criterion Collection) (DVD) Philip Baker Hall

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Secret Honor (The Criterion Collection)Format: DVDCondition: NewNumber Of Discs: 1Release Date: 10/19/2004Genre: DramaActors: Philip Baker HallDirector: Robert AltmanAudio Language: Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1), EnglishRuntime: 1 hour and 30 minutesRegion Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)Studio: Criterion CollectionCertificate: UnratedDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Nixon arms himself with a bottle of Scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. Direction: Robert Altman Actors: Philip Baker Hall Special Features: New High-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound; Two audio commentaries by director Robert Altman and co-writer Donald Freed. AMAZON A bravura performance by Philip Baker Hall and the probing eye of Robert Altman make Secret Honor a provocative--even haunting--speculation on history. The project originated as a one-man play, a fictional look at Richard Nixon dictating a lengthy monologue to a tape machine. The script offers some wild possibilities for explaining Watergate, but more importantly it attempts to understand Nixon the man (and succeeds far better than Oliver Stone's factual Nixon). Hall's flabbergasting performance, though it holds nothing back in its picture of a boozing, paranoid self-dramatist, manages to humanize Nixon. Altman's low-budget filming of the play tinkered little with the text or with Hall's performance, but the gliding camera, always picking out the telling angle or detail, is pure Altman. It received a tiny release in 1984, but Secret Honor now looks like a key American political fantasia, like The Manchurian Candidate wrought on a single set. --Robert Horton SET CONTAINS: Eighty-one minutes of archival excerpts show the real Nixon in his different modes, from the unctuous "Checkers" speech to the embattled "I am not a crook" defense to the amazingly emotional farewell to the White House staff on the day of his resignation (we will not see that sort of presidential performance again). Two commentaries are included, from Robert Altman and co-author Donald Freed; Altman's illuminating monologue discloses his receipt of a couple of personal notes from Nixon, including a request for information about Nashville--daughter Julie's favorite movie. A 22-minute interview with Philip Baker Hall reveals how Secret Honor changed the career of the then-obscure actor. --Robert Horton See moreDVDs ARE REGION 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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